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He led the team out this time for military training.

Any territory needs a decent army. Although the pace of territorial construction has been slowed down due to various accidents that have occurred before, the army building work cannot be delayed. Therefore, under Sui Xiong's arrangement, Gerald took a group of young people who had performed well in the previous training to the Gold Coin Federation for actual combat training.

The objects of their training are naturally those bandits.

The Federation of Gold Coins, a great place with bandits, can meet robbers as long as you go out of the city gates. If you follow the caravan, a small or large group of robbers will visit your door almost every night.

In this case, the practical experience of young people has accumulated rapidly, and their strength is also improving.

Of course, if it weren't for Gerard leading the team, maybe they would have suffered heavy losses and not one in ten, but with Gerard, a legendary powerhouse, the risk of battle was well controlled, and after a winter, although many people had large and small scars on their bodies, the number of injuries and even deaths was still zero.

For example, in this battle, the strength of the nickname "Iron Claw" is extraordinary, and even a seasoned adventurer can break under his hands if he is not careful. But his final result was to seriously wound a soldier, and then he was turned into a suspicious mosaic by the great axe that fell from his head. And the seriously injured soldier has recovered most of the time after receiving timely treatment, but he will be left with a rather terrifying scar on his body.

These scars were deliberately left by Gerald so that the young people could always be alert. They can't live under his protection forever, and sooner or later they will have to take charge of themselves, and he only hopes that in this way, these young people can get a practical and reliable lesson and avoid unnecessary dangers in the future.

Seeing that the business is gone. The adventurers who had come from afar were a little frustrated. They greeted Gerald and then left, leaving only Josiu.

"Big man, you weren't joking when you told me last time, were you?" he asked, sitting down next to Gerald familiarly.

Gerald was stunned for a moment, then remembered that he had mentioned to him about "territory building". nodded: "Of course not, can this kind of thing be a joke?"

Qiao Xiu's eyes suddenly lit up by two points, and he asked in a low voice, "In that territory of yours, is there really a true god in charge?"

"Can you still laugh at this kind of thing?"

Qiao Xiu nodded slightly, indeed, in this world, it is really not a joke to laugh at the gods. Maybe that god will remember you because of this, and cause you a little trouble or something......

"You told me last time. I'm welcome to join, and seriously?"

"Of course!" said Gerard without hesitation.

Qiao Xiu obviously thought about it, nodded again, and said solemnly: "Then let's just say it, when will you really start to do it, call me." I'm definitely going over to help!"

Gerald laughed, patted him on the back, and handed his flask over.

"Well done! You won't regret it! Drink!"

Qiao Xiu held the giant flask almost bigger than his head with both hands and took a deep sip. The eyes are brighter and brighter.

Sui Xiong, who saw this scene with the help of the soul link, couldn't help but smile.

Ever since he found out about this Qiao Xiu, he had been very curious and interested in this handsome barbarian guy.

Qiao Xiu's strength is extraordinary, and his skills in dealing with people are also quite sleek. But that's not surprising. What Sui Xiong really felt strange about was the thread of faith on his body.

In this world, anyone who has a clear belief can see the thread of faith. Both the gods and the high priests can see the thread of faith, so there is no way to falsify the faith, and those who pretend to believe are deceiving. At best, it is a low- and middle-level figure, and it will not work at all in front of the high-ranking clergy who are really close to God.

The thread of faith on Qiao Xiu's body points to the goddess of the Northland Snow Field and the Blizzard, the one who is also known as the "Empress of the North". He is the god king of the "Extreme Cold Alliance", a god system, slightly stronger than the goddess of the sea, and on a par with the god of storms. There are also gods of snow mountains, avalanches and snow monsters, also known as the "Master of the Snow Mountain", and the god of glaciers and ice giants, also known as the "Lord of Ice". In addition, he has two allies who are not directly subordinate to him, but also respect him as the leader of the alliance, namely the goddess of winter and the north wind "Chilling Maiden", and the god of snowy beasts "Ice Overlord".

The god system composed of five gods is not many in terms of number, but the power of these gods is concentrated in the Northland, and their influence is much greater. Therefore, even if the barbarian clan had their own patron deity, the influence of the deity revered as the "Elder Bearherder" was far from comparable to that of the gods of the Extreme Cold Alliance.

For example, Qiao Xiu, as a barbarian, does not believe in his own patron saint, but in the goddess of blizzard.

It would be fine if it was just that, but Qiao Xiu's thread of faith was also very strange. It was filled with both the glow of the devout and the bright red rage, and the two mixed into a heavy curse.

To put it more simply, he was once a devout believer in the goddess of the blizzard, and still believes in this goddess - but he is full of resentment and anger towards the goddess, and this resentment and his devout belief merge into a curse on the goddess.

A mortal who resents and curses the gods he believes in?

Sui Xiong felt that there must be a very heavy story behind this.

He was curious about this, so he instructed Gerald to try to absorb Josieu into his side.

Of course, if Qiao Xiu's experience was indeed worthy of sympathy, he wouldn't mind helping out or something.

...... Anyway, according to Xuehua's estimate, when she is officially a god, the goddess of the blizzard will most likely come to make trouble. Rather than wait for him to bring a group of equally evil gods into trouble, it is better to try to weaken and weaken his power. It's best to create a little chaos for him so that he doesn't have to worry about himself.

Seeing that Gerald and Qiao Xiu's negotiations had been successful, Sui Xiong smiled slightly and turned his attention to the other side.

It was in a deep and dark underground world, in a natural cave.

This world does not have the huge and complex underground world of some of Sui Xiong's previous fantasy works, but some large-scale karst caves can also be found. They are mostly located on the edges of certain mountain ranges and go long and deep beneath the earth. Among them, there is also a unique biological system, which has its own wonder.

Parin is leading a few adventurers, carefully exploring the underground caverns.

His mission was to investigate the ecology of the area and collect specimens of flora and fauna, especially mushrooms, to inform Akan's research.

It is not easy to cultivate mushrooms that can grow normally in a negative energy environment and are not toxic and can be eaten. It took almost a winter for Arkan to cultivate only two mushrooms that were barely relevant.

The first type of mushroom is resistant to negative energy, not only by eating, but also by providing negative energy resistance for a period of time if it is used as food. But its yield is really problematic, and even in the Arcain cultivation room, which provides a relatively good growing environment, its yield is far from enough to reach the level of "food".

After all...... It originally existed as a medicinal herb.

The second mushroom is able to hit the tip of the umbrella at the top, and if you cut off the tip of the umbrella, you can eat the rest of it. However, it is impossible to completely exclude all the negative energy to the tip of the umbrella, and there is still a small amount of negative energy left in other parts. According to the results of animal experiments, at least ordinary beasts cannot completely dissolve this residue, and after eating, they will lose their vitality and become sluggish.

Akan didn't want to do human experiments, and neither did Sui Xiong. They could have imagined what would have happened to humans if they ate the mushroom, and it was clear that it would not have been possible for the average pioneer to use it for food, at least.

The experiment didn't go well, and Akane was sorry. However, he also emphasized that research is a matter of time and luck, and it is not easy to achieve satisfactory success in a short period of time.

"What then?" Sui Xiong asked, "Is there a way to make you study faster?"

After pondering, Akan said that it might be helpful if he could go to those underground caves and get more mushrooms that grow in the underground environment as reference and research materials.

Mushrooms are a huge biological system, and even if the Pasteur family studied mushrooms for many years, it would not be possible to collect all the mushroom species in the world. They collect all those varieties that are representative, because for their past research, this is enough.

But if the research topic is to be set in the obscure direction that Sui Xiong requested, the Pasteur family's reserves will not be enough, and more materials will need to be found.

Sui Xiong accepted Akane's suggestion and sent men to a nearby cave to collect underground mushrooms.

He sent a total of two teams, the first team is Frost and Hail, the dragon brother and sister are responsible for going to a distant cave, it is said that there are some more dangerous monsters there, and mortals may be risky if they go over.

The second team was Palin, and the cave he went to was a well-known scenic spot that was often explored by travelers. For a full army of magicians, warriors, priests, archers, and thieves, such a place should be fairly safe.

Things were going about the same way as Sui Xiong had expected, and they had been exploring underground for two days without encountering much danger.

Of course, this is due to their slow travel for safety, but the safety of the cave itself is indeed quite guaranteed.

It's just that...... Safety is safe, and work efficiency is lower. In the past two days, they have found several kinds of mushrooms, but judging from the images transmitted back, they are all species that are not worth paying attention to, and Akane vetoed their value at a glance.

To find the mushrooms he needs, he'll have to go deeper underground...... (To be continued.) )